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Jamie Foxx Spotted Out and About Again Amid Health Scare Recovery
The Academy Award-winner is also set to be involved in a new project centered around fellow music great, Luther Vandross.
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The Evolution of Michael B. Jordan
With Creed III's $45.5 million opening on March 3, it's time to take another look at the Black Panther star's illustrious career thus far.
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Just Mercy Is Available to Rent for Free Throughout June in Honor of George Floyd
Though the primary purpose of films is to entertain, it can also be used to make a statement and inform the masses on important issues throughout history. 2019’s Just Mercy was certainly touted as a film that accomplished as much. In June, Warner Bros. Pictures decided to make the critically acclaimed film available to the public…
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Rob Morgan Is a Leading Man
“You from Chicago?” Rob Morgan’s rich voice rumbled with a comedic lilt, acknowledging the area code on my cell phone. After I confirmed, he followed up with a question that further cemented my love for him: “You step?” From that very moment, I settled into what was to become one of the most endearing interviews…
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ABFF Honors 2020: The House That Black Hollywood Built
The “category” was excellence, and Black Hollywood showed up and showed out. On Sunday night, the Beverly Hilton was bustling with black actors—I like to call them blacktors—producers and press gathered for the ABFF Honors, a space that Black Hollywood built to recognize our excellence in film and television. (After all, if we don’t, who…
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A Quest for Justice: Just Mercy Cast on the Racial Inequality in the Criminal Justice System
“Slavery doesn’t end in 1865, it evolves. It’s that century of lynching and terrorism. And then it becomes racial apartheid and Jim Crow segregation. And now it has become over-incarceration and excessive punishment.” —Bryan A. Stevenson text Bryan A. Stevenson is a gift. As an attorney and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative—an organization dedicated to…
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George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People. Neither Do the Golden Globes
Have you ever spent New Year’s Eve in Denver? The champagne and laughter are inescapable, and you’ll find more color in a carton of eggs, but if you’re “lucky,” you’ll stumble upon a familiar soul trapped inside of a trust fund baby—kind of like last night at the Golden Globes. Actually, New Year’s Eve in…
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Cinema-In-Chief: Just Mercy and Watchmen Among Barack Obama's Favorite Films and TV Shows of 2019 [Updated]
We’re coming to the end of a year (and decade) and it’s time for Barack Obama’s tradition of sharing his faves! When Obama isn’t golfing or still kissing babies (you can take the politician off of the campaign trail, but…), he likes to chill and watch movies and binge television, just like us. This weekend,…
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ABFF Honors 2020: Blackest Film Festival Ever Announces Nominees for Movie of the Year
Along with hosting what I believe to be the blackest film festival to ever do it, the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) joins Hollywood during awards season to officially honor some of the best films of the year with a formal ceremony called the ABFF Honors. ABFF recently announced the nominees for its big Movie…
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SAG Awards 2020: Jharrel Jerome, Lupita Nyong'o and Jamie Foxx Among Nominees
It’s time for the most delightfully dramatic people in the universe to honor their peers! Danai Gurira and America Ferrera announced the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Wednesday morning and, of course, there is a bit more room for blackness to shine. The guild is showing love to Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) and…